When you have a backyard full of plums -- especially if you're just not that into jam -- you really have to get creative about using th...

I had never heard of Zürcher geschnetzeltes until last week, when someone mentioned it randomly on ravelry. The translation is just "...

Well. The beginning of 2014 has turned out to be unexpectedly challenging so far. I for one am feeling pretty tired and ready for some seri...

It's almost fall! Even here in CA the weather is beginning to actually turn. The high today was only 72F! I know this seems like nothin...

I have a new obsession and its name is tzatziki. Cucumbers! Yogurt! Garlic! YES. I had yogurt sauces on the brain after the chole palak ...

I still have a good chunk of my crock of sauerkraut hanging out in the refrigerator, so today I thought I'd bust it out and make myself...

We've been watching Jacques Pepin's newest PBS show for the past few months, getting more and more excited about making all the de...

Breakfast this week: Eat me. Eat me. Eat me some more.

I had been wanting pesto gnocchi for far too long, so when we got a big bunch of basil in the CSA box a week ago, we jumped on it with loud ...

Make baked mac and cheese with savoy cabbage, and throw in some of the leftover purple kale from before. Don't make that face! It was ...

Ok, so I strongly wanted to use the Vcon dill-tahini sauce recipe for something. For one thing, dill is my favorite underused fresh herb. ...

I seem to either make pasta with only oil and garlic, or with a gargantuan sauce full of everything the refrigerator can throw at it. When ...

The answer is: lentil millet quinoa burgers. Or, you know, most of the things I make. These were accidentally millet And quinoa burgers bec...

So the multiuse chili in the freezer was an exceptionally good idea. We came home from NYC fairly exhausted, but of course had to run out ...

Clearly you could spend the rest of your life making all different kinds of chili. Chili chili chili. Here is one kind: Chili with roasty b...

Most of the people I know hate, hate, hate cooked (read: boiled) cauliflower. I think even my mother hates it, which is saying something. ...

I'm making an effort to make my pictures more appetizing. Look, shiny vegetables! So after the previous eggplant peanut business , I wa...